{"id":52190,"date":"2024-12-10T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brig-gen-patrick-karuretwa-appointed-president-of-the-military-high-court\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:20:00","slug":"brig-gen-patrick-karuretwa-appointed-president-of-the-military-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brig-gen-patrick-karuretwa-appointed-president-of-the-military-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Brig Gen Patrick Karuretwa appointed President of the Military High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The decree also announced other changes within the Military Tribunal where Lt Col Gerard Muhigirwa has been appointed as Vice President.<\/p>\n

Among others, Lt Darcy Ndayishimiye and Lt Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Mukasakindi have been appointed as Judges in the Military High Court.<\/p>\n

The appointments were confirmed during a Cabinet meeting on November 9, 2024, after a review of military personnel proposals submitted by the Minister of Defence.<\/p>\n

Prior to his new appointment, Brig Gen Karuretwa served as the Director of International Cooperation within the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) following his tenure as Head of Operations in the RDF’s Second Division in the Northern Province. <\/p>\n

He has a long history of service, having spent 10 years in various roles within the Presidency. <\/p>\n

From July 2011 to March 2016, he served as the President\u2019s defence and security advisor, and from November 2013 to July 2021, he was the Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Republic.<\/p>\n

Brig Gen Karuretwa joined the military in 1992. He holds a degree in Law from the National University of Rwanda (2000) and a Master\u2019s in International Law from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA.<\/p>\n

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Brigadier General Patrick Karuretwa has been appointed as the new President of the Military High Court, with Lt Col Sumanyi Charles designated as Vice President. His appointment was made public through the Prime Minister\u2019s Order, issued on December 9, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000078430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000078430,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/54057212829_1e88a9deba_b-c4a00.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000078430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52190"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52190"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}